[linux-audio-dev] Re: LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

Loki Davison loki.davison at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 23:05:33 UTC 2006


On 6/20/06, Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:49:14PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:15 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
>
> > > All of them fake.
> >
> > Fake like the countless bug reports I get about your filter plugins not
> > working because they take some silly arbitrary unit instead of Hz for
> > cutoff frequency?
>
> If you mean the "Moog" filters, it's not arbitrary, but 1/octave as for
> everything in AMS, for which they were written.
>
> I never had a bug report for this, rather the opposite.
> And why then should *you* be getting them ?
>
> If OTOH you mean the 4-band parametric, it does take frequency control
> values in Hz (and gains in dB).
>
> All this doesn't change the fact that the rationale I commented on
> *is* fake, whatever the qualities of LV2 (which I do not even deny).
>
> --
> FA
>
> Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!
>

Because people actually use them in Om, because people actually use Om
unlike certain other modulars. volt per octave is pretty damn obscure
in a computer program.... If i wanted to have a cutoff at concert A
what the hell is that in volts per octave?

Loki



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